News from March 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement at a press conference before signing a discharge petition to force House Republican leadership to allow a vote on a measure Rep. Levin introduced that would extend emergency unemployment insurance.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Linda Rideout, 61, of Paso Robles, California, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on March 13, 2014, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distributing less than 50 grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released the following statement in response to the leak of internal Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) information on potential vulnerabilities of the nation’s electric grid:
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - A U.S. Army soldier was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison for his role in stealing fuel at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Fenty near Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Good morning gentlemen. We appreciate your appearing before the subcommittee, and we appreciate your service to the country, particularly during this time of transition for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I am hopeful that an individual will soon be nominated to be the Director of ICE; that...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued a report highlighting the impact of more than $33 billion in USDA investments to support rural businesses, infrastructure and housing in 2013.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Senate approved legislation to reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Yesterday, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner transmitting an independent legal analysis from two of the nation’s preeminent experts in Constitutional law and congressional contempt...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Dr. Mikhail Presman Falsely Claimed To Provide At-Home Services While Employed Full-Time At A VA Hospital.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Deepal Wannakuwatte, 63, of Sacramento, was charged today in a three-count indictment returned today with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for leading a tax fraud conspiracy that attempted to receive nearly $100 million in fraudulent refunds from the IRS. Co-conspirators from eight states were involved in filing fraudulent tax returns in the largest federal false claims case that has ever been prosecuted in Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on March 5, 2014, MILO ROBERT COOK III, 34, of Billings, was sentenced to 96 months in prison, followed by 5 years supervised release by Senior U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy. The sentence followed Cook's December 2013 guilty plea to Possession of Methamphetamine with the Intent to Distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Repeatedly Failed To Protect Residents And Workers From Asbestos Exposure.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Two former bank employees were sentenced today to five months in federal prison and five months in a halfway house for embezzling from a bank in Grant County, Kan., and helping stage a robbery to cover up the theft, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 13-count indictment today charging Facundo Lopez-Perez, aka Jose Huerta Maldonado, aka Israel Lopez Zasueta, 43, of Del Rey, and Jorge Perez Robles, aka James Gonzalo Jara, 41, of Fresno, with conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Change doesn't happen on its own. It's led by dedicated and passionate people who are committed to empowering Indian Country to energize future generations. Leading the Charge is a regular Indian Energy Beat newsletter feature spotlighting the movers and shakers in energy on tribal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Adrian Clemons, 32, of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa to making counterfeit United States currency. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Sammy D. Mosely, 39, of Carthage, Texas, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks to attempting to entice a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 13, 2014 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) sent a letter to Department of the Interior’s Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall once again requesting an unredacted copy of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) report on the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement’s (OSM) efforts to rewrite the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Commerce released details today about the President's fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget request to Congress for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The FY 2015 budget request of $900 million aligns with the agency's vision for expanding and strengthening...
